Alumni and guests of the Virginia Students Civil Rights Committee talk about their efforts in Southside Virginia at a 50th anniversary reunion last weekend in Blackstone. Facing the camera, from left, David Nolan, Janet Dewart Bell, Bruce Smith and Scott Marshall.
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The Charleston, S.C., church shooting is an ugly reminder that “racist violence is not a ghost,” said Bruce Smith 71, of Woodbridge, a volunteer lobbyist for AARP.